184 What fort ofChurches done peaceábly without ftrife or contention , without judgingof others, as unto their Interet} in Chrift, and Eternal Salvation, the Law 'of Moral Obedience doth require. That it be done with Love and Çompafon and Prayer towards and for them who are Left, is the peculiar Dire&ion of that Moral Duty by the Gofpe!. Such a PraCtife at prefent would fall under fevere Charges and Accufations , as alto brutith Penalties in ibme places. But when all Church Craft [hall be defeat- ed, and the ufes that are made of its imaginary Autho- rity be difcarded, there will be little occafion of this PraEtile, and none at all of Offence. Again; There are Things Fundamental unto Church PraCtife and Order in the Church itfelf, which where they are neglected , no Man ought of choice to joyn himfelfunto that Church, feeing he cannot do it with- out the Prejudice of his Edification, the furtherance whereof he ought to defign in that Duty. And thefe are, (r.) That the D f ipline of arifi be duely exercifed in it, according unto his Mind, and by the Rules of his Prefcription. There never was any Sea, Order, or So- ciety ofMen in the World,defigned for the Prefervation and Promotion of Vertue and things Praife-Worthy, but they had 'ules of Difcipline proper unto the Ends oftheir Defign, to beobfèrved in and by all that belong unto them. Where theEre&ion offuch Societies iscon- tinued in the World, as it is much in the Papacy, both their Conflitution, and their Converfation, depend on the efpecial 701es ofDifcipline which they have framed unto themfelves. And this is done by them in great Variety
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